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American rapper Young Thug's attorney, Brian Steel, arrives at court as opening statements in the long-awaited US gang conspiracy trial targeting rapper Young Thug are slated, with the prosecution expected to controversially present lyrics as evidence. IMAGES
Gisele Pelicot, a French woman whose husband has admitted to enlisting dozens of strangers to rape her while she was drugged, arrives at the court in Avignon with her three children, while her daughter Caroline Darian and her two step-daughters were due to speak on the fifth day of the trial. Photos of them sleeping were also found on the computer of her husband, Dominique Pelicot. IMAGES
The victim of the Mazan rape case, Gisèle P., who was drugged and raped for ten years by her husband and scores of strangers he recruited on the internet, arrives at the court in Avignon before taking the witness stand. Police counted a total of 92 rapes committed by 72 men, 51 of whom were identified. IMAGES
The lawyer for Amanda Knox says the American is "very upset" after an Italian court reconvicted her of slander for accusing an innocent man of killing her British roommate in 2007, a murder she herself was jailed for before being acquitted. "She was looking to have a final point," lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova tells journalists, referring to the 17 years of legal procedures following the 2007 killing, "so at the moment she is very upset". SOUNDBITE
Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan could face the death penalty as she and dozens of other co-accused await verdicts in one of the country's biggest fraud cases over the embezzlement of $12.5 billion. IMAGES
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the Paris courthouse to hear the verdict of the appeal trial in the 'Bygmalion' case. Sarkozy was previously sentenced to a year in prison for illegal financing of his 2012 presidential campaign. IMAGES